How to deploy Rails app to Heroku with Figaro vars

rails_heroku.md

1. add the following to your Gemfile:

     gem 'rails_12factor'
   end```
   
   `gem 'figaro'`
   
   
   

2. run bundle exec figaro install

3. add ENV vars to config/application.yml and call them from config/secrets.yml

4. deploy to Heroku with the following commands:

   heroku create git push heroku master (takes a little while) heroku run rake db:create heroku run rake db:migrate heroku open

5. check on your app with the following:

   heroku logs -t (tail the prod logs) heroku run bash plus rails c to run Rails console